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When young adults can't afford independence, family expectations fill the gap
- January 22, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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I met Lufang Chen, a 30-year-old bank clerk based in the Fujian province of China, in 2016, after she had married a man she initially turned down years earlier. Although she preferred to remain single, and he was not her type anyway, she gave in to avoid the label "leftover woman."
Originally published at Phys.org